Many consider middle school to be one of, if not the most significant stage of one’s lifetime. One can endure so much change and progression throughout these short, early-adolescent years. Not so long ago, a short but meaningful seminar was established, in which I attended it. The fundamental purpose of this conference was to provide students with an opportunity to share various aspects of their consequential middle school voyage and to ultimately distinguish which features of these journeys are similar, and which are divergent.

First and foremost, allow me to summarize my personal performance throughout this seminar. Within the entire discussion, I only spoke once, and it was only for approximately 20 seconds. Objectively, that’s not very honorable. However, similar to the previous seminars, I didn’t consider my score to be very crucial. Instead, I opted to listen attentively to the other speakers and to critically stimulate my thinking associated with the topic. Due to this, although I most certainly didn’t share much about my own middle school journey, I acquired a comprehensive understanding on other attendees’ journeys, where I could form similarities and contrasts with my own journey. Personally, I think that this was an extremely valuable opportunity for me to ponder about the importance of middle school, as well as critically analyze different students’ journeys. Compared to my already mediocre performances of previous seminars, this performance was noticably worse. However, these poor performances have become a pattern by now, and I am completely used to it.

Many details about students’ middle school journeys were proposed throughout the seminar, and the following affirmations are just a few. Students endured plenty of both physical and mental change throughout the process of middle school. Students evolved from not being concerned about their future at the start of middle school to preparing for high school nearing the end of secondary school. Many subjects revolving around our school, OCAC, were mentioned as well, as one brave attendee provided an extensive and straightforward depiction of how the change of OCAC affected the trajectory of our growth throughout middle school. For example, this person stated that there were numerous foreign teachers in our school’s Primary Years Program, whereas the amount of overseas educators severely decreased as we entered and progressed through middle school. Overall, all of these proclaimations and many more all portray the dynamic change students experienced in middle school, which simply reinforces the statement that middle school is extremely substantial to one in their lifetime.

Regarding the procedure of the seminar, there’s not much I want to criticize, but there is one drastic change that I insist be made. The length of the seminar was simply too short. Unlike the previous seminars we attended, which lasted for two classes, this one only lasted one class, which went by in the blink of an eye. Even the initiator of the seminar said that the final scores of the attendees were on the lower side. In order for more people to speak more, there must be a sufficient amount of time for these people to share. If the length of the previous seminars is implemented into the following seminars, I guarantee that more relevant ideas and notions will be proposed.

Curtly, middle school is truly a prominent portion of one’s life, and this seminar further explores the significance and relevance of middle school. Many practical declarations were stated, which all contribute to our understanding of middle school, which will ultimately help us in the future.

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